Jacques Audiard Quotes

Film has to reflect the real world.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

Draw what you see.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

I met my husband while I was making a movie.

I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things get mixed in. All those things happen in reality.

I always want to tell the truth. It doesn't have to be a pretty truth, and it doesn't have to be a life-changing and life-threatening truth like 'Chi-Raq.' But I want to tell someone's truth in an effort to inspire people to see themselves reflected on the screen.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it's what I'm interested in, and it's how I believe human behavior is legible.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

The crime film is the most honest American film.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

Music is the mirror of reality.